Elemental transmutesFollow

My primary reason is for INCOME :)

When you say 'elemental' do you mean as in creatin *essence* of <fire, water, earth, etc>? I transmute air to fire and make about 3-5g profit on each one. I buy Essence of Air in bulk and transmute it to fire and sell on AH or in trade channel. Plenty of people are looking for essences, esp. fire, which is why it's expensive.

Hope this helps.

What! Think you may be shooting yourself in the foot here?

The fire is far easier to come by than the air. It drops relatively often from On'Goro, in copious amounts in MC (doesn't matter if you're not doing MC, it still becomes available in the AH) and in large amounts from BRD, which is very often run.

Air, on the other hand is pretty much only gained from the elementals in Silithus, which are a little tight at dropping it, to say the least!

I'm not an alchemist but I've ground essences for ages for my robe (10 of fire,earth,air,water) and belt (12 of fire and water) of the archmage. I ground most and bought a few of each. I found it much cheaper to buy the water and have it transmuted to air than trying to buy the air.

Transmuting air to fire sounds crazy to me, but perhaps you'll put me straight.

Edited, Thu May 18 07:28:20 2006 by leatherpatches

Well, the prices on my server have chanegd recently as well. Fire is now around 15g a piece, and Air is around 10g. Used to be 14g for Fire and 18-20 for air... go figure.

People like Elemental transmutes for two reasons: you can get as much money as an arcanite transmute (undeath to water for example), AND they only have a 24-hour cooldown, not a 48-hour cooldown. So you effectively can do them twice as much and make twice as much profit.

Granted, some of the transmute recipes are a pain to find...

I don't doubt your sincerity, but I suspect someone might be playing a gigantic 'fix the market' scam on you.

Fire is so much more readily available than air, unless they've changed the drop rates and places on one or two servers without telling anyone, that it is almost bound to be cheaper through simple market forces.

Just the fact that a guild clearing MC in a night (which there is likely to be on most servers now) even without Raggy can expect between 5 and 10 essence of fire. On top of this any group doing BRD can expect perhaps 3 or 4 to drop. Plus those farming them. Plus those who take advantage of the invasion in On Goro to store them up and sell them etc. vs people who farm slow drops in silithus and the odd BWL drop and it all stacks up to mean that fire costs less than air. No real way to argue against that?

And no, it's been this way for quite a while; I expect this will be the norm unless more Essence of Air recipes come out. Most servers eventually get to this point; the reason Essence of Fire isn't sky-high is because AQ isn't fire-based. Thus the demand for Living Essence will start to creep up, especially with the next patch's new recipes.

Don't forget about Heart of Fire=Elemental Fire Transmutes, 10m cooldown, they at least keep the cost of making Greater Fire Protection Pots down. I was my guilds main supplier of Fire Pots forever and that transmute saved me so much money.